Innis

One language means one way of recording who a person is. One record of the population, what they own, what they have said, who they have spoken to, what they believe. The efficiency of it. Brick answering brick, the ledger growing, nothing lost, nothing outside the account. You can only do certain things to people if you can name them all the same way, and you can only name them all the same way if they share a tongue, and you can only hold all of that if someone holds the ledger, and whoever holds the ledger can do to the named what would otherwise be impossible. The tower made that possible. The scatter made it hard again. Hard is mercy when you understand what it was making hard.